A truce was observed on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Thursday after two days of armed clashes between the two countries in the Caucasus, in which more than 150 people were killed, AFP and Agerpres reported.
The armed clashes that broke out on Tuesday ended in the night from Wednesday to Thursday “thanks to the participation of the international community”, announced the National Security Council of Armenia.
Russia, a traditional mediator in the region, announced a truce early Tuesday morning, but it has been in tatters for two days, during which the warring parties have blamed each other for the bombings.
Armenia announced on Wednesday that it had lost 150 soldiers and accused Azerbaijan of occupying part of ten square kilometers of Armenian territory. Azerbaijan announced that 50 Azerbaijani soldiers were killed.
The two countries blame each other for the clashes, which have caused hundreds of Armenian civilians living in the border area to flee. A delegation from the Collective Security Treaty (CSTO), a military alliance led by Moscow, was due to arrive in Yerevan on Thursday to review the situation, Armenian diplomacy said.
The clashes are the most intense since the 2020 Armenian-Azerbaijani war over control of the disputed Azerbaijani separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which resulted in more than 6,500 deaths and the crushing defeat of Yerevan, which ceded territory to Azerbaijan.
New clashes between two countries in the Caucasus
Demonstrators gathered in front of the parliament headquarters in Yerevan on Wednesday night and demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, following rumors on social media that he intended to make concessions to Azerbaijan.
Armenia’s relationship with Azerbaijan, two rival former Soviet republics, is historically complex. Before the 2020 war, the two countries clashed in the 1990s over control of Nagorno-Karabakh, a war that killed more than 30,000 people.
Nagorno-Karabakh is an Azerbaijani enclave with an Armenian population that seceded from Azerbaijan with the support of Armenia.
These new armed confrontations risk derailing the European Union (EU)-sponsored peace process. Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met in Brussels on August 31, two weeks before these armed confrontations.
Source: Hot News RU
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